• New Product Introduction and Strategic Sourcing on Plastic Mouldings and Aluminium Parts for the Cable Raceways for Airbus.• Create and execute strategies for continuous cost improvement of approved components, including components used in both existing and new designs.• Manage supplier relationships including the development, negotiation and management of contracts with those suppliers.• Coordinate with suppliers, Product Management, and Internal Engineering to understand supplier product and technology roadmaps.• Issue and manage RFQ's, proposals, negotiate prices, recommend suppliers, analyze trends, follow up on purchase orders placed and maintain necessary records of material movement throughout the contract manufacturing and inventory cycles.

• UK Purchasing Manager with 2 buyers reporting direct to me controlling £20M spend on all material for the factory and part of the senior management team for the UK Site.• Formulated a strategy for external companies to design PCBA, LED Drivers and electronic products that the internal development team can’t do saving time, money and manpower.• Project planning all Electronic, Moulded Plastic and Aluminium Extruded components to agreed timescale and cost for new products from agreed plan between development & purchasing.• Managing Supply Contracts, NDA’s & Design Specifications required for the supply base and achieving cost targets and timelines.• Control £30M additional spend in Ballasts (Europe & China), LED Drivers (Europe, USA & Eastern Europe), PCBA (Eastern Europe), Die Casting (China & Eastern Europe), Aluminium Extrusions (Eastern Europe), Plastic Moulding (Eastern Europe), Batteries (China), Lamp holders (Europe & China), Metal Parts (Europe & China).• Saving over 2 Million US dollars in past 12 months on resourcing Batteries, Plastic Mouldings, PCBA & Metal Parts to Asia & Eastern Europe.

• Controlling all sub contract purchasing of cable assemblies, PCBA, Die castings, Antenna & electronic components. • Transferring printed circuit assemblies from Sweden to Estonia & Poland with saving of 20% on spend of 3M.

• Purchasing Electronic components & raw printed circuit boards for Satellite Systems to Aerospace Specifications

• Controlling all Electronic & Electrical components from selection of supplier to cost with a budget of $100M• Liaison with contract manufacturers to make sure that supply, delivery & cost meet Xyratex requirements• Making sure that all electronic & electrical assemblies meet project estimates • Provide Component Strategy for Development to obtain the lowest total acquisition cost • Based in Malaysia on & off for 10 years controlling the sourcing of material in Asia• Supply solution to all lead-time issues over 6 weeks and limit company exposure to cost• Controlling a team of 4 people• Issue monthly forecast data to all component suppliers with a Microsoft access program designed by me• Hold business reviews with all strategic suppliers on a regular basis• Total Control & Project Managed all Development projects & budgets for Printed Circuit Board assemblies • Extensive travel to suppliers in the Far East, USA & Europe• Purchase computer products from Far East suppliers i.e. Disk Drives, Motherboards, Monitors• Raising NDA and Service level agreements on new suppliers• Experience of forwarding contract terms from customers to suppliers• Manage decisions on to Make or Outsource to Subcontractor • Design & control KPI on suppliers • Project planning all Electronic & Electrical components for Hard Disk Drive Tester over 5000 different parts from all over the world to agreed timescale and cost for new products from agreed plan between development & purchasing on Capital equipment worth over 1 million each